Author: R. Scott Rappold
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Concussions raise tough questions for parents of football players
In his first season of playing football, every time Elijah Engelby caught a pass, his mother cringed. “I would just get scared and cover my eyes,” Maria Engelby said. A year later, preparing for another season with the Rampart Eagles, a sixth-grade team in the city of Colorado Springs youth football league, she’ll probably still…
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COLORADO SPRINGS TO DO LIST: Trinity Brewing Company’s fifth birthday
When Jason Yester left Bristol Brewing Co. to launch his own brewery in a strip mall on Garden of the Gods Road, he proved a couple things: that a brewery could survive far from downtown and that a brewery could thrive in Colorado Springs serving a constantly rotating menu of largely experimental beers. It’s hard…
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Colorado’s mountain-bike museum moving to California
It’s a decades-old debate: Did mountain biking begin in Colorado’s Crested Butte or the California hills of Marin County? The West Coast pioneers might be able to toot their own horns a little more these days. After 25 years in Crested Butte, the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame and Museum will be relocated this fall…
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For Bristol Brewing, end of one long road, beginning of another
A huge, beautiful new brewery- with no beer? At one point this summer, Colorado Springs’ largest brewery nearly reached that point. “It was hard on the bar staff, because we’re a brewery, and somebody comes in and we have two beers on tap,” said Mike Bristol, founder of Bristol Brewing Co. “Fortunately, our regular customers,…
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COLORADO SPRINGS TO DO LIST: Rendezvous at the Rock
We’re taught in journalism school to never use the phrase “first annual,” but here’s hoping this new beer festival in Castle Rock becomes an annual event. The Rendezvous at the Rock, which is sponsored by Castle Rock’s Rockyard Brewing and others, runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and will feature beers from 30…
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Springs hiker launches line of super-detailed trail maps
When he first moved to Colorado Springs, avid hiker John Vasilakis was in paradise. Here was a whole world of national forest trails to explore. But he and his wife soon found hiking here is different from Southern California and Connecticut. “There aren’t enough marks on any of the trails. We’d find ourselves getting lost…
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In a conundrum over popular backcountry hot springs
WHITE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST – 7 p.m. Saturday Three dozen people, about a third of whom seem to have forgotten to pack their swimsuits, are soaking at 11,200 feet in the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness, near Aspen. They hiked 8.5 miles to get here, and the 103-degree water bubbling from below does miracle work on sore…
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Ambassadors of the peak: Meet the new Barr Camp caretakers
Renee Labor thought she was working her dream job. So when the Denver resident heard a radio report about a vacancy at some place called “Barr Camp,” she found it interesting but didn’t seriously consider applying. Ideas have a way of germinating, however, and the next thing she knew, she was asking her boyfriend about…
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Saturday bash to mark 10th anniversary of Red Rock Canyon deal
Newcomers to Colorado Springs might not know it, but there was a time not too long ago that the popular hiking and biking trails in Red Rock Canyon were off-limits. Acquiring the open space on the west side of Colorado Springs was a crowning achievement for the city’s Trails, Open Space and Parks program. Prior…
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R. SCOTT RAPPOLD’S PICK: Edible plants of the Pikes Peak region
You might be surprised how much of our wild flora in the Pikes Peak region is edible. You might also be surprised how much can make you sick. So learn from an expert before you start grazing. Join local edible-plant enthusiast Tracy Bookman for a presentation and hike from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at…